Published December 5, 2023
- A UNICEF spokesperson says safe zones in Gaza “are not scientific, they are not rational, they are not possible”.
- Israel ramps up attacks across the Gaza Strip, including near hospitals and in the south of the besieged enclave where ground operations are intensifying.
- Israel’s “indiscriminate bombardment” of Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza has reached “new depths”, the Norwegian Refugee Council chief warns.
- At least 15,899 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the official death toll stands at about 1,200.
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SOURCE: www.aljazeera.com
RELATED: Israeli army admits to two civilian deaths for every Hamas fighter killed in Gaza Strip; death toll crosses 15,500
Published December 5, 2023
As the death toll in Gaza has crossed 15,500 on Monday, the Israeli military had admitted that two civilians died for each Hamas fighter killed in war.
Around two civilians have been killed for every dead Hamas fighter in the Gaza Strip, senior Israeli military officials admitted Monday, and said the army was deploying high-tech mapping software to try to reduce non-combatant deaths.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israel’s military campaign, in the wake of Hamas attacks on October 7, has killed around 15,900 people so far, most of them women and children.
Asked about media reports that 5,000 Hamas fighters had been killed, one of the senior officials told reporters at a briefing: “The numbers are more or less right.
“I’m not saying it’s not bad that we have a ratio of two to one,” one of the officials said, adding that the use of human shields was part of Hamas’s “core strategy”.
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SOURCE: www.Hindustantimes.com
RELATED: Israel’s Netanyahu vows to continue war with Hamas ‘until all aims achieved’
Published December 5, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Saturday the war against Hamas in Gaza would continue “until we achieve all its aims”, moments after announcing Israel was pulling its negotiators out of Qatar after a deadlock in talks there to secure a renewed pause in the fighting. Israeli forces carried out deadly bombardments in southern Gaza for a second day after the expiration of a week-long ceasefire. More than 15,200 people have died in the Palestinian territory since the war began, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Read our live blog to see how all the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
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SOURCE: www.france24.com
